Investigators say the uncle was wielding a hatchet on the teen’s front porch.

When deputies arrived, Jerry Lee Robinson was dead.

The juvenile is not being charged, at this time, because it appears he was defending himself.

“The bullet blowed him back and he laid, he fell, and laid right here.”

Rachel Cork said her 16-year-old son, shot and killed her husband’s brother, Jerry Lee Robinson, in the chest with a rifle.

“Yeah, my son defended himself. It could have been the other way around. It could have been my son, I’m the one I’m picking up and having to bury, but it wasn’t.”

Her son was home alone when the shooting happened.

“I just had left to go to work and I took my daughter with me, so when I left to go to work, I probably wasn’t gone from my house, just right up the road, and I guess he come over here, and tried to break in on my son, and my son shot him.”